Jita Park Speakers Corner

So what?

Hey, read all the words I put in that post, man!

Null sec players sound cooler and more hip hop, much like bill clinton playing the saxophone or obama being kenyan and exotic. That kind of stuff helps alot in elections. You could always try a get out to vote approach and tell other hi sec people to vote for the boring person running for CSM.

Vote for me I solo veld with a hulk and run a small pos since it sure is hard finding reserach slots in hi sec. Sometimes I do PI but not now with taxes, and incursions only want faction fitted ships so I dont do them. I will represent all hi sec if you vote me in. And we shall recieve better tutorials on how to play eve but also have a life outside of it ( Of course voiced by aura). Thank you for your consideration.

Solo, yes. Combine those with a tanking BC like, say, a drake, and I would assume you'd have a nice combo that still costs less than your average hisec tengu.

Disclaimer: I don't do missions, I think they're about as fun as watching paint dry. ymmv.


Why?

I'd argue that they aren't just "fixing null", there's been a lot of changes that affect hisec as well, like the neutral repping issue, I believe, and literally tons of small UI and usability fixes.

However, they are probably spending more time trying to get CCP to fix null, because null was, and probably still is, in danger of stagnating hard. What was the last huge war you saw a report on the last 6-12 months? Have you seen the quality of posting that's been going on on sites such as kugu? Some threads there are literally threatening to become worse than most eve-o threads because literally the only thing they can argue about is who was most honourable, the guys selfdestructing dreads or the guys dropping titans and supercarriers.

It's in dire need of help before it goes below a critical mass because of things like the anom nerf which caused tons of 0.0 space to be vacated, and SOV systems which allowed IT Alliance to keep SOV several months after they'd essentially officially disbanded and left the area. And therefore it's the area of the game which I would expect to get the most attention for at least the next patch, because face it, eve online does not get any press whatsoever for mining or doing missions. It gets it for being a cold place, where backstabbing is rife, and whole swathes of space swap hands at gunpoint. If that part of the game goes poof, so does the entire game.

This isn't to say that I believe that empire is worthless, there's been tons of suggestions for adding valid career paths to living in hisec, and I support that. I'm just saying that right now, if nullsec hadn't been at least begun worked at again after about 2 years of seemingly nothing but apathy from CCP, I would've expected EVE to cease to exist in a few years, and CCP along with it.

Im not living in nullsec.....
Im a highsec carebear

No.... I discovered highsec incursions

I would add my agreement that the CSM needs to represent high-sec players better.

I would not make voting compulsory - many people choose not to vote - but having a vote screen on login is a good idea. It could have the option to "remind me later" or "no vote" but be able to access it in-game later if you change your mind.

If the list of players you could vote for had a little description/manifesto for each of them, e.g. "Chribba - I am a carebear who lives in high-sec and likes to trade, set up helpful websites", "The Mittani - I am an honourable null-sec dweller, please contract me your titan so I can check its fit", etc, it would help voters choose players they think would best represent them.

Well mostly I agree with you, and yes, I moved out of null because there was nothing fun for me anymore and a pvp is a huge time consumption.
Still, high sec is a total boredom and I really want to have fun there.
It is very frustrating because there is nothing fun for you in EvE when you have 1-2 hrs per day for gaming time. Missions is the only choice.
Doing missions is not "as fun as watching paint dry. ymmv." It's like watching a turtle race or flirting with a hooker.

And T1 laser crystals are useless because you can't break Guristas tank without them. It takes a lot of time just to pop up one BS with 700+k bounty on it.

Pfft true, my bad. Meant to type "eject" :)

I can't talk for other people. In my case, it was that the CSM cared to push forward the ABC issue on their own, without popular demand nor forum debate, right before the Incarna crisis. That broke my self-service-o-meter and made me wonder WTF was going through their minds.



It is not to prioritize hisec's interests. It is TO PUT THEM ON THE BLOODY TABLE.

I have been reading almost every devblog for months, waiting to read something that gave me hope, and there is no hope. CCP is not even considering to add new content outside of nullsec. They are not even ASKING wether players would like to have it. And certainly the nullsec CSM is not going to worry about it, they are working to nerf hisec and WH (no ice, no ABC) in favor of nullsec as if the RMT and botting stemming from nullsec weren't bad enough.

So what is left for us to do? Leave in silence? Or make some noise before leaving?